CHAPTER 22
Policy-Based Management
Policy-Based Management (PBM) is a system DBAs can use to report on or enforce standards across the enterprise. This chapter first introduces you to the concepts used by PBM and then demonstrates how to use PBM to effectively manage an estate through the GUI and with PowerShell.
PBM Concepts
Policy-Based Management uses the concepts of targets, facets, conditions, and policies. Targets are entities PBM manages, such as databases or tables. Facets are collections of properties that relate to a target. For example, the database facet includes a property relating to the name of the database. Conditions are Boolean ...
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